Use different terminology for LGBT community

Regarding the Nov. 11 article "LGBT rights get renewed focus": Legislators go through hoops for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community to accommodate 3.5 percent of America's population. Legislators work hard to change or tweak laws and yet it all comes down to one word — marriage.

I have never understood why the LGBT community doesn't come up with a word, such as civil union, alliance; something creative that would depict their union. Our legislators could then work on verbiage that would give the name they chose the same rights that apply to the word "marriage." If a new word and legislation for their union came to a ballot/vote, I can't imagine it not passing.

Whether we think same-sex unions are morally right or wrong, it is their choice. Marriage is between a man and a woman — that is and has been 96.5 percent of Americans' right. Let the LGBT community choose its own "word" and we can put all this to a close. Thirty or 40 years from now, we can look back and think "we were solution-oriented."

Marcia Dicks

Tyrone Township

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